Representative
Cynthia McKinney dodged a bullet when a grand jury wimped out and refused
to indict her for her assault on a Capitol Hill police officer.

The
Greek philosopher Thrasymachus once observed, �Justice is simply the advantage
of the stronger.� Some empirical realities never change�(ask Mary Joe
Kopeckne�s family).

The
rules ARE different for the �privileged classes�.

McKinney is �privileged�
as an anointed �royal� member of congress.

She is �privileged�
as a black member of caucus.

She is �privileged�
because she is a female member of congress.

She is �privileged�
because she is a loud, rude, confrontational democrat.

Once
upon a time, a black woman in a white man�s world suffered prejudice,
discrimination, and diminution. Today, she holds all the cards (most significantly,
the �race card�).

McKinney�s
conduct was both inappropriate and illegal. An average 6th grade student
could figure that out, but a D.C. grand jury apparently could not. She
admitted hitting a police officer who tried to stop her from entering
a House office building.

The
grand jury had been wringing their hands and looking at their feet since
shortly after the March 29 incident. Notwithstanding all the talk about
race and conduct of lawmakers and those tasked with protecting them, this
�resolution� is a travesty.

U.S.
Attorney Kenneth Wainstein said, "We respect the decision of the grand
jury in this difficult matter," demonstrating he is as gutless and impotent
as the cowards of the grand jury. He apparently also relishes the procedural
�plausible deniability� the grand jury has offered him for cover.

Horace
Walpole said, �Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue
in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that
due. Injustice is acting a lie.� The grand jury�s McKinney decision was,
for sure, �acting a lie.�

This
incident also provides further evidence of the chronic double standard
in that 87-square miles surrounded by reality in the District of Criminals.

I guarandamntee
that if ANY republican had laid hands on a member of the capitol hill
police, the mainstream media, the liberal democrats, and even assorted
police organizations and unions would have gone apoplectic�demanding a
pound of flesh. This was an opportunity squandered by McKinney, the black
caucus, and democrats. McKinney, could have/should have, offered a sincere,
profuse, mea culpa. She should have apologized to the officer, voluntarily
entered anger management classes, and been �contrite.� She was not.

The
apology that was offered (albeit a week after the incident) was, "I am
sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all, and I regret its escalation,
and I apologize," McKinney, said April 6. "There should not have been
any physical contact in this incident."

What
�misunderstanding�?

Congress critters
are supposed to wear a lapel pin identifying them as �privileged.�

McKinney was
not wearing her pin.

She had recently
changed her hairstyle.

The officer did
not recognize her and ordered her to stop (a lawful order).

McKinney copped
an attitude and ignored the uniformed officer.

When the officer
attempted to restrain her, she pimp slapped him.

She
could have/should have identified herself. SHE chose the inappropriate
response to what she perceived (incorrectly) as an affront. SHE was WRONG!

Alexander
Solzhenitsyn (who knows something of justice and injustice) said, �Justice
is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole
of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience
usually recognize also the voice of justice.� McKinney embraces elitism
and a warped, corrupted conscience.

Cynthia
McKinney is a mean spirited, argumentative, hypocrite. She has made a
career out of the inappropriate, and routinely and chronically engages
her pie hole before engaging her gray matter. This time she used her hands
to illegally resist the lawful order of a uniformed officer.

Congress
recently displayed uncommon common sense by removing Representative William
Jefferson after FBI agents found almost a hundred grand in bribe money
in his freezer. However that same collection of congress critters is incapable
of rendering the same common sense to McKinney?

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The
Greek tragedian Aeschylus noted that justice �shines� in the homes of
the humble and disadvantaged, but �the gold-spangled mansions where the
hands are unclean she (Justice) leaves with eyes averted.� Which is precisely
what happened with the McKinney Grand Jury.

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